Choosing a Host for Your Online Directory
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Next, don’t even consider free webhosting for a directory site – it won’t have the capacity to meet your needs. Also, free web hosts often require websites to include their ads, but you’ll want to keep any potential ad revenue for yourself. And if a free host doesn’t push ads, they may not have the income to stay in business! Either way, it’s a raw deal for you.
The Big Five
For hosting an online directory site, the top five criteria are:
Uptime or reliability: professional hosting companies should be able to offer 99.9% uptime, which means that short of an asteroid strike (and maybe even then) your website will always be online.
Disk space: the more disk space you
